Year: 2020

More than ten million corona infections in the USA for the first time

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According to the Reuters news agency, the USA is the first nation to break through the mark of ten million corona infections. In the last ten days alone, the United States recorded around one million cases, the highest infection rate since the first case in Washington State. More than 237,000 Americans have died of Covid-19. In total, more than 50 million people worldwide have now been infected and more than 1.25 million have died. Meanwhile, in Brazil the number of known infections increased by 10,554 to a total of more…

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More than 50 million corona infections worldwide

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More than 50 million infections with the novel coronavirus have already been detected worldwide since the outbreak in China in December 2019. Of the 50,010,400 registered corona infections, 1,251,980 were fatal, according to a census by the news agency AFP based on information from the authorities on Sunday. With 12.6 million confirmed corona infections, Europe is the world region most affected by the pandemic. More than 305,000 infected people have already died on the continent. In Latin America and the Caribbean, 11.6 million infections and 411,000 deaths were registered, in…

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32,616 newly infected and 331 fatalities in Italy

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In Italy, 32,616 new infections with the coronavirus have been reported today. According to the Ministry of Health, there have been 331 deaths, compared to 425 yesterday. In total, the number of deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic has risen to 41,394. 191,144 tests were carried out within 24 hours. The number of confirmed active cases rose to 558,636. 529,447 people were in quarantine. The number of Covid-19 patients treated in hospitals increased from 25,109 to 26,440 compared to the previous day, the Italian authorities further reported. There were…

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Biden visits Catholic Mass and graves of the family

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The day after his victory in the U.S. election, Joe Biden today attended church services and visited the graves of family members near his home in Wilmington. Biden’s son Beau, his first wife Neilia and daughter Naomi are buried in Greenville Cemetery. Beau died in 2015 as a result of a brain tumor. Neilia and Naomi Biden died in a car accident in 1972. According to the journalists on the spot, the elected US president was accompanied by his daughter from a second marriage, Ashley Biden, and his grandson Hunter.…

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World leaders congratulate Joe Biden

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The U.S. election is decided, on Saturday Joe Biden won the presidency. Congratulations and political wishes were quickly sent from all over the world, and spontaneous celebrations took place in many US cities. But in view of the many complaints against the results, skepticism prevails in some places. After four days of waiting, Donald Trump received the news of his election defeat in golf. He reacted by stating that he did not recognize the election results and would bring further lawsuits on Monday. In Austria people were happy about the…

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Record number on a Sunday: 5,933 new infections – 24 deaths

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In the past 24 hours, 5,933 new infections were reported – more than ever before on a Sunday. There are already 459 patients in the intensive care unit. The figures for the federal states in detail: Burgenland: 215Carinthia: 195Lower Austria: 1.370Upper Austria: 1.608Salzburg: 144Styria: 752Tyrol: 808Vorarlberg: 319Vienna: 522 After there was a new record number of new infections in Austria on Saturday, the number of new cases on Sunday – as always on the weekend – has decreased significantly. 5,933 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours. The…

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Already more than 40,000 dead in France

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In view of the massive increase in corona infections, there is a growing fear in France that hospitals will be overloaded. In France, more than 40,000 people have already died of corona infection. With 306 new deaths within 24 hours, the number of victims in the country rose to 40,169 corona deaths on Saturday, according to the health authorities. The number of new infections on Saturday was not reported; the day before, it had reached a new high with more than 60,000 infections within 24 hours. In view of the…

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Corona explosion: intensive care units soon at the limit

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The situation in hospitals is becoming increasingly dramatic. For the first time since yesterday, more than 3,000 patients are undergoing Covid treatment. 432 have to be treated in an intensive care unit. Resources have long since become scarce. A collapse is feared by many experts. Since yesterday, not a single intensive care bed is free in the state hospital of Hohenems (Vorarlberg). New patients are immediately diverted to Feldkirch. The problem: it is already the second fully occupied hospital in the Ländle. Dornbirn is also at its limit. More than…

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Trump repeated: I won the election

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US President Donald Trump continues to see himself as the victor and repeated misleading and unsubstantiated claims in the evening. The entire tweet was written in capital letters – one of Trump’s ways of showing anger or rage: “The election observers were not allowed to count. I won the election, got 71,000,000 legal votes”. “Bad things” had happened “that our election observers were not allowed to see. Twitter immediately gave the tweet a warning. Trump does not want to acknowledge a victory of his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the…

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